Back from Aruba and on "The Road Again":

Sat. April 22, 2010

Wow! What a wonderful vacation. What is a vacation to retired people? We are always on vacation. I guess it's doing something different.

Aruba was gorgeous , water all shades of blue and turquoise. I was I could describe it better.
We stayed at the Marriott Surf Club. It's a time share. We were on the 9th floor, beautiful view of the beach and water.
We spend part of the day in the ocean and the rest of the day floating with a tube on 'The Lazy River" We went down the slide tube and under the waterfall. Now, I have to tell you the river was 3-5 ft deep, so no danger . At times, it was like bumper cars with the tubes, but you meet more people that way.

We met lots from Mass, Ct. and Pa. Saw a lot of Boston Red hats.

It was great having Al's daughter's, Donna & Marla , and their husband's, Rob & Ken, with us. We did more because of them. Rob wanted to go on the Banana boat but needed at least 4 people. So, Rob, Ken, AL and I went. Boat was suppose to go about 15 mile per hour, but Rob kept giving him the thumb. so the boat kept going faster. Ken was in front of me and I almost chocked him a couple of times. I was sliding off a few times and the guys kept grabbing me. Imagine at my age having three men grabbing and holding me on. LOL, Lots of fun. Al's foot got too much fun and it became blistered. We used a lot of sun lotion but the salt water and sun did a job on him and places on me. That's the risk you take and it was worth it.

One half day, we went on a Jeep Safari. We road in the national park. You would not believe how rough it was. If we had any bone or joint calcification, it was gone after the ride. We swam and snorkeled in a natural pool on the north, rough side of the island , saw the natural bridge, the fort that they had when they mined the gold and a donkey farm, The donkey's they use to use for travel now with cars they are in a protected farm. There were lots of goats climbing the range. A great day. We were so glad it was half a day and we went in the am.

We walked the beach every day and night, beautiful sunsets. Some evenings we sat on the beach.

The last night the kids treated us to a sunset cruise, 1 1/2 hour cruise. We went to an island for dinner. We were greeted with a glass of Champagne, a wonderful dinner with music, then dancing music. It was a great way to end the vacation.

We are now trying to catch up on things and we will leave Monday. WE will head for Red Bay, Alabama , to the Allegrobay factory.

Safe travels and make memories. Hugs and Love Rosemary and Al